The Big Announcement...In 3 Parts

Since I know the main reason you are here is not to hear about HOW we told all our friends and family but WHAT we told them. So I will get that out of the way right now

IT'S A GIRL!

Now on to the stories. Warning, this could be a long post.

Part 1: The Community group

Andrew and I had the ultrasound on April 4th. The Sunday before that we were talking with our community group about how we were not sure how Andrew and I wanted to find out. So they asked if they could put together the surprise for us. We thought that sounded like a great idea.
So after our ultrasound, the tech printed out the pictures of AJ that showed gender and put them in a sealed envelope. The enveloped was then passed on to Carly and Brigette who made cupcakes with colored filling.
That night the group came over and decorated the house in blue and pink. Then we all bit into the cupcakes at the same time to see that they were PINK.

Part 2: The McKay's

For both our families we were going to tell them when we saw them on Easter.  So I bought 2 pink Easter Eggs and then decorated them by gluing little pink and white paper flowers all over them. I don't have a picture of them but they looked kind of like this...only cuter

 For the McKay's I wrapped it up in a brown paper box with some Easter grass.  We went over to their house for breakfast and church and they opened it as a family. Everyone was excited for a little girl and there will be pictures soon.

Part 3: The Colton's

Telling my family had a bit more drama than I anticipated.
Every year since I can remember we have hidden a golden egg during the hunt.  This was special because it usually had 20$ in it or something so even the adults wanted to find it. So my plan was to take the decorated pink egg and hide it inside the golden egg for the family to find. I needed to find a time to hide it when no one was around (because I knew if my sister was around she would try and peek to see where I hid it.) I got the perfect opportunity on Saturday afternoon when I was at the house by myself. I went into the back yard and hid the Egg in what I thought was a perfect spot. I then left that evening to go to the Easter service at Rolling Hills.
While I was gone Cooper, my parent's bloodhound, tracked my scent to the egg and pulled it out and proceeded to tear the golden egg and the pretty pink egg to pieces. Kelly and my Mom looked outside trying to figure out what Cooper had gotten into and when they saw the gold then the pink they put two and two together and went into crisis management mode. My mom refashioned a pink egg and had to find another golden egg to hide it inside and then re-hid it in the back yard. (BTW they did not tell me any of this until the next morning when everyone was getting ready to find their presents.)
Leave it to Cousin Hayley to find the egg and show everyone the pink egg inside.